Senior Mobile Engineer - React Native - Contract

Senior Mobile Engineer - React Native - Contract

Lendi Group is a market-leading digital platform business focused on transforming the home loan industry. It operates the country's #1 retail mortgage broker – the iconic Aussie Home Loans franchise – and the Australia's #1 digital mortgage brand, Lendi.

Together, with its national network of 1,300 brokers and 230 retail stores, the Lendi Group brands give all Australians the power of choice, and confidence, in one of life's biggest financial decisions.

Building on this market-leading foundation, Lendi Groups vision is to be the undisputed place for Australians to buy and own property through our new Aussie Homes propositions.

Lendi Group's loan book is more than $100b and it was named Australia's Aggregator of the Year for 2024.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion are fundamental to the success of Lendi Group. We're passionate about fostering an environment where our team members feel valued and supported and we celebrate everyone's unique identity.

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native) who's available to start immediately on a contract engagement. There's also potential for this role to transition into a Senior or Lead position on a full-time, permanent basis.

This is a great opportunity to take ownership of Lendi Group's mobile engineering direction and join a talented team of React Native engineers working on our new Lendi app leveraging AI features and next-gen user experiences.

You'll balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership, guiding a growing team across Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide. You'll influence mobile strategy, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions to ensure our apps remain reliable, secure, and performant at scale.

You'll work at the intersection of product, design and engineering to deliver features that customers and brokers love, operating in a trusted, regulated domain where quality and security matter.

We're progressively moving towards AI-native ways of working (using both AI tools and agents). Experience with agentic ways of working is a bonus, but not a requirement.

For a feel for our current mobile tech stack, we use React Native, TypeScript, Zustand, React Navigation, Auth0, Reanimated, Zod and Ky.

This is a unique opportunity to influence our mobile platform and engineering practices at national scale.

Feeling like you don't tick every box? Please consider applying, we value potential, a learning mindset and transferable experience.

Qualifications

Around 5+ years of professional software development, with significant, current commercial experience in React Native (TypeScript).

Proven delivery of production apps on both iOS and Android with deep platform knowledge (tooling, app lifecycles, app store processes).

Secure mobile development fundamentals: encryption in transit/at rest, Keychain/Keystore usage, safe storage & transport of sensitive data, and familiarity with OWASP mobile guidance.

Authentication & authorisation: working knowledge of standards such as OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect and robust session management on mobile.

Strong testing discipline: unit and component tests running in CI; comfort maintaining test suites as the app scales.

Backend integration experience (REST/GraphQL), including auth flows, resilience and error handling.

Production ownership: telemetry, debugging, incident mitigation and post-incident improvement (runbooks, feature flags/kill-switches).

Clear, considerate communication and a collaborative approach to working with product/design/QA and other engineers.

Must be available to start immediately. Nice-to-haves:

Deep React Native expertise — large-scale apps, modern architecture, upgrades to the New Architecture, and hands-on performance optimisation.

Strong platform experience — deep linking, push notifications, analytics, experimentation, and mobile–web feature parity.

Proven delivery quality — CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (Detox), and large-scale release management.

Solid security and privacy mindset — safe logging, secure storage, and privacy-by-design practices, ideally in fintech or regulated environments.

Interest in AI-assisted development and agent-based tooling to accelerate delivery and code quality.

Additional Information

Lendi Group teams operate across Australia and the Philippines. We're committed to creating a new era of seamless connection in property finance by changing the way Australians experience property lending, for good.

A few of the benefits that our people rave about include:

• A vibrant, relaxed, yet professional culture
• Holistic wellbeing programs offering 24/7 support, including medical, mental health, and financial wellbeing services to enable our workforce to thrive at home and work
• Generous Paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with 18-26 weeks leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers
• An additional week's Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years of service
• Wellness initiatives with a strong focus on psychological safety
• Social groups such as our industry-leading Women in Technology group.

Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Lendi Group to attract, engage and evolve the right talent and build best-in-class products.

Feeling like you don't meet all the skills listed? That's ok; we are always on the lookout for different skills, experience, and qualities and so we'd still like to hear from you.